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EVERY TIME I START MY PC I GET A MESSAGE STATING PREPARING YOUR SYSTEM THIS
MAY TAKE A WHILE. IT NORMALLY TAKES 20 MIN. PLEASE ADVISE. |
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This message suggests that you have an application creating a wininit.ini
file (which will be located in your Windows folder) each time your system runs and the message you are seeing is displayed whilst the commands contained in wininit.ini are being executed. What changes did you make to your system around the time this problem started? Have you recently installed a "clean up" application of some sort that claims to clean your temporary files and folders for you each time your system boots? Look for either a wininit.ini or wininit.bak file in your windows folder, open using Notepad and copy and paste the contents into a reply to this message and hopefully someone will be able to identify what is causing the creation of this file. Regards, -- Mike Maltby SCOHAR wrote: EVERY TIME I START MY PC I GET A MESSAGE STATING PREPARING YOUR SYSTEM THIS MAY TAKE A WHILE. IT NORMALLY TAKES 20 MIN. PLEASE ADVISE. |
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wininit.ini " Please excuse me for usurping SCOHAR's appointment, but since he is 5 months late may I now ask you about this wininit.sav file that I have just now found inside my \WINDOWS folder. Is that something that I could erase to speed up my boot? - - SPURII TE IN PULVEREM CONTERERE NON PREBE |
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No - Windows doesn't look at it (wininit.sav) at all - ever!
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "idmonnnn" wrote in message news " wininit.ini " Please excuse me for usurping SCOHAR's appointment, but since he is 5 months late may I now ask you about this wininit.sav file that I have just now found inside my \WINDOWS folder. Is that something that I could erase to speed up my boot? - - SPURII TE IN PULVEREM CONTERERE NON PREBE |
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